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A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called The Roaring 20s

A profile of legendary music producer Sir George Martin with the help of his son Giles and wife Judy with contributions from Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Michael Palin, Howard Goodall, Cilla Black, Bernard Cribbins and Rolf Harri

Two young London actors set out together to face the greatest challenge in the world of acting Shakespeare

The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death

American exchange student Amanda Knox is convicted and eventually acquitted for the 2007 death of another student in Italy

Sir David Attenborough explores the world of bio luminescence, the often spectacular natural light produced by some creatures Specially designed cameras reveal natures leading lights

A chronicle of the wild and brief life of the 1970s most controversial surf star and international playboy from Los Angeles, Bunker Spreckels

The story of Grand Canyons hidden slot canyons, the canyoneers who systematically explored their drainages, and the secrets hidden deep within their walls

Nearly a year before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency, two filmmakers began to roll cameras on the young senator Over the next 19 months, across the USA, the daily events of the presidential campaign are chron

An in depth look at Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggis life, work, and murder Featuring interviews and footage that explore his personal and professional relationships with Saudi rulers, jihadists and fellow global journalists

5 Seconds of Summer are not just another boy band Luke, Michael, Calum and Ashton have risen from obscurity to mega stardom and this biography traces the rise of 5SOS from their humble beginnings in Sydney, to sell out stadium roc

A story of globalization filtered through the fever dream of a Mexican shaman, THE MODERN JUNGLE is also an intimate portrait of Zoque culture, commodity fetish, and the predicament of documentary

For the first time a documentary examines the global impact of pedophilia from a cultural and professional perspective We live in a society that condemns pedophiles, though biological instinct and world cultures throughout history suggest that an att

This is the story of a young mother living in Northern Ireland fifty years ago, as her country teetered on the brink of civil war With never before seen footage and behind the scenes interviews, Betty Williams Contagious Courage

Infamously macho author Norman Mailer shares a 1971 NYC panel with an audience of intellectual women and famous feminists receiving a lively critique revealing the sophisticated political, literary discourse of early Womens Lib move

Satirical documentary, shot in all parts of the US, showing various aspects of American behavior

Tiger Woods Chasing History is a 2019 sports documentary that chronicles Tiger Woods legendary career, and examines his chances of passing Sam Sneads record of 82 PGA TOUR victories The documentary premiered July 22, 2019 on th

Mercy Love Grace is the story of six former combat veterans gathered together to train for their next mission saving the oceans coral reefs and in the process, saving themselves

How lives of ordinary people are changed forever by using new technology, and thus, becoming cyborgs

Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalenes myth on art and artists In art all Christian saints are inventions but Mary Magdalene has been the subject of more invention and re invention than any other

Documentary telling the jaw dropping story of Carl Beech, a former nurse from Gloucester who claimed he had been sexually abused by a group of prominent men in the 1970s and 80s leading to a 2 million police investigation

A few Japanese and American survivors of the 1944 Battle of Peleliu return to this island 60 years later

After unearthing a tomb that had been untouched for 4,400 years, Egyptian archaeologists attempt to decipher the history of the astonishing find

The Elan School was the last stop Set deep in the woods of Maine, Elan delivered controversial therapy to troubled teens It was a meat grinder of raw emotion and harsh discipline Some say it sold hope, others say it sold Hell

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival

Documentary covering a Stax Records sponsored all day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk h

Contemporary pin up girls and the women who inspire them

In the world of professional sports, no American athlete ever came back from a mental health disorder until Ron Artest, now known to the world as Metta World Peace

Carne Ross was a government highflyer A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives He felt at first hand the corruption

The world of the most famous brewed beverage, as experienced by the passionate portrayals of four characters whose lives involve the craft of beer

Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun

Jumbo Wild a gripping, hour long documentary film that tells the true story of the decades long battle over the future of British Columbias iconic Jumbo Valley

A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003 Her body wasnt discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life not even a photograph

Written and directed by acclaimed film maker, scholar, and New York Times best selling author Dinesh DSouza, TRUMP CARD is an expose of the socialism, corruption and gangsterization that now define the Democratic Party Whether it i

The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary The choreographys practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological wa